Posted on 07/22/2010 7:40:23 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
But but but OSX is really Unix so this can't be. /sarcasm
tech ping pls.
This one is really interesting.
Who will be the first to claim Secunia is biased?
I thought you’d find this article interesting.
Oh my God where do I get the protection software I need? I will pay anything to stay safe.
On second thought...Never mind.
Golly, so all those millions of people infected who where running windows were just mistaken? Time to uninstall their adblockers, scanners, antivirus, and live free and secure...
Of course, all those Mac users only THINK they haven’t gotten in viruses, when in fact they are loaded with them and didn’t even know it all this time !!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!
This one is funny.
Was it written for people who have never USED a Mac or PC?
Cause my guess is... there might be a few people with the personal experience to just shake their heads at THIS whopper of a tall tail.
Windows is more secure then OS X.... and if my grandma had wheels she’d be a wagon !!
I know...there are more and more people running windows 7 without AV. Personally it’s stupid; however, if you only go to known sites and don’t open attachments in email you will most likely be ok. I know I have done it in the past without any issues. It’s just on the machine that I do my deep internet dives that I make sure my AV is up-to-date and working properly.
This is the fifth or sixth time I have asked for a verification.
Put up or shut up time : )
At this point I can only conclude that you are completely dishonest.
I think what gets overlooked most of the time is that the reason Windows has been so targeted for years is because it is the most common OS being used. Of course hackers are going to target the system used by most of the public and businesses. As a side note, this has given Microsoft years of experience fixing and improving their security. Now that Macs are becoming more ‘common’ in the market place, they are getting more ‘attention’ from hackers, which is beginning to expose the security flaws in their software.
This just proves that point...Mac is just too small to worry about by the malware creators.
Security of Mac has been proven time and time again (3 years in a row) that it was the easiest/quickest to hack and gain full access to it at the Pawn2own contest.
So by all objective standards the only plausible reason why it’s not hacked much in the wild is becuase of its small footprint.
Macbots should start telling people not to switch to OSX if they want to keep their system “secure”.
Uh oh. Guess I better run out and buy McAfee Total Protection 2010 and Norton Antivirus 360 for my Macbook! Wait. I can’t find them for Apple products. What is going on here?
I ask the same of you. Where can I go to have my win7 box taken over? It's put up or shut-up time for you.
The absence of such site doesn't mean it can't happen. But I guarantee you with only 5% of the market share that website will be a lot harder to find than the windows one. So I'll let you go first.
You can’t point me to a site that will take over my machine either.
However if I sit with you in starbucks for 10 min i’ll flip your display 180 and be logging keystrokes or redirecting you to a phishing site.
You mactards have no idea
OSX has built in anti-malware software. Apple provides that functionality for you.
Sshhhh....we can’t let that fun little trick out of the bag. That was supposed to be a secret.
They don’t have to worry about black hats...oh shi-—
What a load. Experience tells otherwise.
Of course, when Windows users used that same argument as to why they were attacking Windows they scoffed.
My favorite is mass disconnect attacks on Apple MAC addresses. (Sucks balls to have Vendor specific hardware, no?)
Oh you mac people want to connect to a hotspot? DENIED
The best is when you see people whine to baristas (who don’t know jack f’ing sh—) about the internet not working.
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